RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/116867824085348762
Type system people when they hear complaints that the formalism in their latest proposed extension is going to be too difficult for users to understand:
Chinese student introducing me to a gaggle of other Asian linguistics students: She’s American. But not one of those Americans who doesn’t speak any languages. A better American
I’m at the opening get-together for this year’s Leiden Linguistics Summer School and even *linguists* from China, who are here to study Proto-Germanic or whatever, are baffled that I’d willingly study Classical Chinese
You could get a doctorate out of studying the Wall of Post-Its in this bubble tea shop. Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Slovakian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Arabic…
The City of Leiden has supplemented the legal notices that have a list of completely different biking hours for the market street on every day of the week in tiny writing with huge signs that say “WINKELS OPEN? FIETSEN LOPEN!” which is a hundred times more helpful
The changes are disorienting, but Amsterdam Zuid Station does feel like a major train station now and not like a dorp platform that’s perpetually having its busiest day of the century
I wanted to draw attention to some specific gamedev art assets that I like and are on sale.
VectoRaith makes what is instantly recognizable as the 16x16 pixel top-down rpg look typified by Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, but with tilesets for many different biomes and several different cultural architecture styles, including China, the Middle East and Java. Sale ends tomorrow
Vexed makes a lot of pixel art assets in a few different styles, but I particularly like the "Chroma Noir" collection which is side-scrolling 1-bit abstract minimalism. Sale doesn't end until the end of the month
Love this projecting stained glass fanlight above the entrance to the Hat-Rack at 144 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. Designed in an Art Nouveau style by James Salmon Junior, the Hat-Rack was built in 1899. I love the screaming head below the window, too!
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #hatrack #stainedglass
found this hidden gem on the garden. it's a japanese hypercard game called Summer Vacation - Search for the Golden Beetle (夏休み・黄金のかぶと虫を探して, Natsuyasumi - kogane no kabutomushi o sagashite)
the pixel art is just insane - such a careful balance of positive and negative space in each rendering.
it plays very much like early Cyan games like The Manhole - pure exploration. thank you macgarden archivist baku for finding, buying, and preserving this incredible gem.
I heard fireworks in the distance at sunset. American immigrants, I wondered? Or Dutch kids perfectly happy to seize on the pretense of another country's sadsack holiday to dip into their illegal stash?
My husband glanced at his phone. "The Moroccans won their game."
Oh. That would do it 😅
Two: Librarians on skates. More tomorrow.
in the true spirit of autism, someone fixed a typo in this rarely-edited Wikipedia article shortly after I linked it
I have never been so frustrated with my voice as I have been today, trying to record something of great personal importance to me and hearing how short my voice falls of the power and presence this speech deserves.
But my voice is, and always will be, no matter how many years I spend away, painfully American.
When I was a little girl, my mother told me about how amazing the 200th anniversary Fourth of July had been, and I was sad that I wasn't born yet. I realized that the next big anniversary would be the 250th, and I would be 38. How incredibly far off it seemed.
And how that joy and anticipation has crumbled to bitter ashes.
I am crying on the other side of the world, in the country where I was born, for the country that raised me and then rejected me.
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@Kroc/116855628444343133
I distinctly remember that my edition of Encarta (they released a new one every year for a while) would play a recording of Martin Luther King Jr saying “I have a dream” at bootup. The ability to browse hundreds of such historically significant little clips was considered revolutionary for personal edification. We all had a lot of dreams back then
Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".
It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?
today there happened to be a children’s rowing competition in the canal as we walked alongside it. Odin presented an exciting logistical challenge for the dozens of coaches and parents who were biking alongside the canal to keep pace and cheer for their kids
This morning’s translation exercises included a guy panicking about being promoted to Prime Minister of Imperial China and submitting his resignation three times in one week (all refused).
Looking it up, this guy served under five consecutive emperors, kept trying to quit but no-one would let him, pretended to have a gross foot disease to get out of awkward meetings, and collected cool rocks and sticks. Autism game respects autism game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niu_Sengru
pictured: an attempt to capture how my sketchy ali express ink shines in the sun
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Chicago Pope, Chicago Pope
well yes I’m fundamentally
opposed to Christianity
for quite a wide variety
of well considered reasons
but he’s no dope
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